Good to hear. I'm assuming you decided to make that purchase after my thread. I've got the same setup and it seems to be working just fine. (read: Noob thinks he's doing well). At the moment, I'm struggling with a rolling x pattern. The DMTD8C does a good job on a really rough edge. Now I'm playing with the DTMD8EE and the 12k to do their work. I brought home a stereo scope to look at the edges. There's a really dramatic difference between the two DMT stones. And looks fairly polished after the 12k.

Glad to hear you like the setup. I think it's a fairly economical way to start off. In the future I might look into other stones, but only after I'm proficient with the current stones.